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Back to the Yale-Cornell game. They'll probably have to bring extra stretchers to Lynah to carry out all the bodies. The Elis and the Red are the two hardest hitting (read: dirtiest) teams in the East and in the wake of the 9-8 affair, no quarter will be asked--and none given...
...brief film career began and ended with a role as one of the witnesses in Warren Beatty's Reds, but George Seldes' other career-that of writer-has shown remarkable longevity. Seldes, who turned 94 this month and considers retirement "the dirtiest ten-letter word alive," is putting final touches on the galleys of his next book, The Great Thoughts, due out in April. Begun in 1960 after he finished his bestseller The Great Quotations, Thoughts is a compilation of highlights from the words and wisdom of the world's greatest thinkers. Tops in this cerebral hall...
...carry baggage"-have criminal records. Webb's prosecutors may have set a record for the use of bad-guy witnesses, when in 1982 they paraded some 50 criminals into court to testify against ten police officers charged with taking bribes to protect the drug trade. "They were the dirtiest you could put on the stand," recalls Webb. "Their backgrounds were as unsavory as they come - rapes, murders, dope transactions." Despite loud protests from defense attorneys that the witnesses were "born liars" and their appearance a "farce," all the officers were convicted...
...bill co-sponsored by Democrats Henry Waxman and Gerald Sikorski spreads the burden of paying for emissions reductions. Under the plan, a 1 cent per kilowatt tax would be levied nationwide on utility customers. The $2 billion raised by the tax would be used to subsidize scrubbers for the dirtiest Midwestern power plants. Tax revenues would finance nearly 90 percent of the cost of the scrubbers, which could reduce sulfur-dioxide emissions by about 40 percent in 10 years' time...
...strangely quiet denouement to one of the dirtiest, sloppiest, most wasteful takeover battles in U.S. corporate history. At its height, the contest was an unseemly spectacle of "cannibals gorging on one another," in the apt metaphor of Television Commentator Bill Moyers. Last week it ended with a whimper. In meetings at Southfield, Mich., and Morristown, N.J., shareholders of Bendix Corp. and Allied Corp. formally approved the merger of their companies. There was scarcely any dissent, but there was some sober reminiscing. Allied Chairman Edward L. Hennessy Jr., 54, said of the torturous maneuvering leading to the $2.3 billion deal...